The GLS 600 is the car the city's film families have made their own: the Maybach saloon's calm, raised to the height of an SUV, with two rear seats that recline and a step that meets you. The house writes it as a Marque car — named, confirmed with photographs, and only ever on commercial plates.
An arrival that should be calm rather than loud; parents of the bride; a premiere or an awards night; the airport for a guest who wants height and hush.
A current GLS 600 in the colour you ask for where it can be had, from a partner the house has driven with, cooled before you reach it, the rear blinds as you like them. Few of these cars in Mumbai are on commercial plates; the house names one only after its papers are seen, and when none can be had it says so plainly and offers the Maybach S-Class or a Range Rover it can stand behind.
A day where you can; for a wedding, a week. The house tells you honestly what can be had and confirms the exact car with photographs before anything is held.
Before a Marque car is named the house sees its registration, its permit, its commercial insurance and its fitness certificate, and meets the chauffeur who comes with it. Only a car on commercial plates carries a guest of the house — however famous the car, however short the journey.
A Marque figure is written for each journey — the car, the sarathi, fuel, tolls, parking and GST in one line — usually within the hour between 7 AM and 11 PM. The house names one car and holds it once the written figure is settled. Nothing is added on the day, and the figure is not bargained over.
Reserve the Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600Choose Marque, name the car. The figure follows in writing.